Gifts: Eight Great Gift Ideas for Lovers of Shakespeare

Looking for literary themed gifts? Something for men or women who are batty for the bard? I've compiled eight great gift ideas for lovers of Shakespeare and (if my husband happens to be reading) I wouldn't mind unwrapping any of these myself come birthday or Christmas.

Under $25

The Shakespeare Book of Lists

If you want to know the bawdiest plays, the most cutting insults or simply some facts and fictions about Shakespeare and his plays then this is the book to get. It is the ultimate book of trivia on the bard and even includes information about various productions, movie adaptations and other works Shakespeare inspired.

Theater Tickets

Shakespeare was so prolific and is so well known that wherever you live there will be a production somewhere of one play or another. If you are visiting London then tickets to The Globe can be purchased from as little as £5 and they do several different plays every summer, all of them performed in the Elizabethan-style open air theater with authentic costume and staging. Further information can be found at the website.

Under $25

The Reduced Shakespeare Company - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Originally a stage play itself, this DVD from the Reduced Shakespeare Company features a three man cast, each playing scores of characters. With all thirty seven plays squeezed into two hours, this is one for serious lovers of Shakespeare who enjoy a lot of silliness.

Under $25

Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns

A naughty look at some of Shakespeare’s sauciest moments, this is a great gift for anyone who can appreciate Elizabethan and Jacobean raciness. Author Pauline Kiernan translates and puts into context Shakepeare's sexual puns.

The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Under $100

BBC Shakespeare Comedies DVD Giftbox

Five of the best Shakespearean comedies produced by the BBC. Featuring The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and As You Like It.

Also available are the Tragedies which features Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Othello, and the Histories which includes Henry V, Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV Part I and Henry IV Part I.

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Hayley Richardson

6 years agofrom London, UK

Thanks! I put it together whilst trying to do a bit of early Christmas shopping as my mum is wild about Shakespeare but it's so hard to find fun gifts when there's so much academic stuff around. Glad to have given you some ideas!

The Fastionista

6 years ago

Thanks for compiling this list! I'm a big Shakespeare fan, and so is my cousin - with the holidays on the way there are some great ideas here. I especially love the BBC DVD set of comedies - excellent find! Voted up!

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